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This game begins with a quote from Herman Hesse, which is a good sign. It continues with a story fragment about a tribe lost in the woods, which seems pointless for someone lost on a frozen ship, but hey.
It then develops into a pedestrian first person shooter without any shooting and with significant graphic and sound problems.
At about the time you get to touch a dead body (always a high point in my day) and trigger a "mental echo," the sound will start breaking up, eventually settling on either a constant loud static or silence. The graphics will compress, giving you a sort of fisheye lens effect; this combined with the fog effects make it difficult to navigate the dream sequence. And when you fall off the ice (the dog supposed to lead you to safety is scarcely visible), you're back on the ship and have to start the whole, slow, slow, slow sequence all over again.
With software issues and poor design from the outset, what do I have to look forward to? More tedious trudging through corridors and the occasional badly designed dream sequence? No thanks. There's a 1.1 patch available, but it doesn't help the bugs and certainly doesn't improve the play. Sure, full points for replacing "health" with "heat;" but apart from that, you should keep Cryostasis in cold storage and buy something more playable and more fun.
UPDATE: I've been writing to Aspyr support with some... interesting results. They naturally asked for the Dxdiag reports, and noted that my desktop resolution was set to 5336x1050. They further noted that this was not the native resolution of my monitor. I broke the news to them that some people use more than one monitor, and modern graphics cards not only allow it, they adapt to the game's demands by using either a panorama or mirroring on the multiple monitors.
Instead of being more helpful, they replied that "Windows 7 and Eyefinity did not exist when the game was released." What a revelation! W7 and the new ATi cards were six months in the future, to be sure, but the fact that they knew nothing about these gives you an idea about what's going on at Aspyr.
The lesson is clear. Only buy an Aspyr title if you're running an OS and a video card that predates its release. With the imminent release of Windows 8, I guess they'll have an excuse for all their titles to break in the next few months.
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